[New] Looking ahead, high commodity prices, recovering logistics networks, and ongoing investment in renewable energy are expected to lift real GDP growth to around 1.9-2.0 per cent in 2026.
South Africa
[New] Data centers, power generation, manufacturing, cold chain warehousing, distribution facilities, and health care spending (primarily ambulatory facilities and large hospital system expansions) will likely capture high single-digit and double-digit growth rates in 2026.
Default
[New] Europe's strategic autonomy efforts risk falling short without closer alignment with Turkey, which they say already plays a central role in manufacturing, logistics and energy transit.
Daily Sabah
[New] Central Asian energy resources and critical minerals align with Pakistan's chronic energy needs, while improved connectivity could expand textile, pharmaceutical, and agricultural exports and support a planned $100 billion blue economy built on upgraded ports and logistics.
The Asia Cable
[New] The 20-billion-plus capital-expenditure budget for 2026 will be used to expand AI training capacity, build and scale robotaxi-focused assembly, develop Optimus humanoid robots, and grow energy-storage production such as Megapack.
TESMAG
[New] Tesla says it will invest at least 20 billion dollars in 2026 on a mix of AI, robotics, energy storage, and the manufacturing infrastructure required to support them.
TESMAG
[New] The drive towards energy storage demand is rooted at the center of US foreign policy, driven by critical minerals, which could potentially reshape the lithium value chain.
VBKOM
[New] The AI Growth Zone Delivery Unit will broker power, planning and offtake across the first wave of Zones to support build out of the AI data center capacity the UK needs.
GOV.UK
[New] As solar technologies become more efficient and affordable and integration with energy storage and smart grids improves, solar power energy will play an even greater role in shaping sustainable, reliable, and future-ready energy systems worldwide.
Soleos Solar Energy Private Limited
[New] Weather-related energy supply disruptions reveal fundamental vulnerabilities in global energy distribution networks.
Discovery Alert
[New] Australia's coal phase-out is driving large-scale renewables and battery energy storage system opportunities, with M&A potential across platform expansions.
PwC
[New] Global energy storage deployment will exceed 100 GW in 2026, driven largely by the need to integrate intermittent renewables with data center-scale loads.
The Property Chronicle
[New] AI will manage complex systems like global logistics and energy grids with superhuman efficiency, eliminating waste and optimizing resource allocation.
INAIRSPACE
[New] 2026 could be a year of rebalancing, driven by energy storage and geopolitical shifts.
Investing News Network (INN)
[New] Battery energy storage is vital to the future of California's electric grid, and a thorough investigation will help the entire industry enhance its safety practices.
Inside Climate News
The UK's £15 billion Warm Homes Plan marks a pivotal investment in sustainable construction, accelerating the shift toward energy-efficient buildings with solar panels, heat pumps and advanced insulation.
Whole Life Carbon
Technological advances over the next few years could make data centers and AI much more energy efficient.
Wired
A bottleneck in hydrogen distribution infrastructure could jeopardise billions of pounds of clean energy investment and slow progress towards net zero.
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Clean energy - defined broadly to include renewables, electrification technologies, efficiency measures and storage - have the potential to replace three-quarters of existing fossil fuel demand globally.
Forbes
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide $2.91 billion to boost production of the advanced batteries, including electric vehicles and energy storage.
Gray
As 2026 progresses, the success of renewable energy will be measured not just by installed capacity, but by how intelligently it integrates with digital systems, storage technologies, and modern power markets.
SolSetu
Grid-scale energy storage requirements alone are projected to increase battery mineral consumption by 55% through 2030, while defence applications and advanced manufacturing create additional demand layers that compound traditional industrial consumption patterns.
Discovery Alert
Last updated: 01 February 2026
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